It seems to me that someone wants to freak us all out. I didn’t even think of a way that the nuclear disaster in Japan could affect us, but “It is feared that nuclear traces from Fukushima’s leaking nuclear reactors, heavily damaged in March’s devastating earthquake, could have spread to the Mediterranean and rained down on the region following heavy showers in recent days. ” [Link]
According to The National Council for Scientific Research, further analysis of the rain drops are expected to be completed Wednesday before reaching any conclusion.
i find it highly improbable that this is happening, because the radiation will either have to cross the whole Pacific, north America, the Atlantic to get to Europe and the Mediterranean (almost impossible), or go through all of Asia (China, Iran, Iraq, Syria..) before getting here..
in retrospect, the Chernobyl disaster, which was more catastrophic, produced a radiation cloud which barely reached Lebanon (http://www.our-energy.com/pictures/static_content/chernobyl/cernobyl_radioactive_cloud.gif) so as you see it really depends on the wind streams, and i don’t think that there is a wind stream that connects Japan to Lebanon.. If I were in California, I’d worry though
Well let’s hope you are right then A.
don’t you just love rumors?
Maybe Syria is playing around with some reactors again?
I know this might have been cleared up by now, but as A said, the prevailing winds in Japan are easterly, not westerly, so by the time these winds actually reach the west coast of N.A and S.A more likely the former, the radiation level would be close to nil and harmless, so all that radioactive rain talk is pure BullShit…